The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-19

elbows and knees the thought Of YOU
splendid robe in Heaven will not keep
them warm. The minister may preach {
splendid sermon over your remains, and
the quartet may sing like four angels in
the organ loft, but your death will be &
swindle. You had the means TO provide
for the comfort of your household when
you left It, and you wickedly neglected II
"Oh, J" says some one. 81 have more faith
than you; I believe when I 60 out of this
world the Lord will provide for them"
Go to Blackwell's Island; 60 through all
the poor houses Of the country, and will
show you how often God provides for the
neglected children Of neglected parents.
That he provides for them through public
charity. As for myself, would rather
have the Lord provide for my family in q
private home, and through my own indus
try and paternal and conjugal faithful.
ness. But, says some man:
81 mean in the next ten or twenty years
to make a great fortune, and SO shall
leave my family, when I 60 out Of this
world, very comfortable"
How do you know you are going to live
ten or twenty years! II we could look up
the highway of the future, we would see II
crossed by pneumonias, and pleurisies,
and consumptions, and colliding railroad
trains, and runaway horses, and breaking
bridges, and funeral professions. Are you
so certain you are going to live ten or
twenty years you can warrant your house
hold any comfort after you 60 away from
them? Besides that, the vast majority OF
men die poor! Two only out of hundred
succeed in business. Are you very GER
tain you are going to be one of the two!
Rich one day, poor the next. A man in
New York got $1,000, 900, and tho money
turned his brain, and he died in the lunatic
asylum. All his property was left with
the business firm, and they swamped it,
and then the family Of the insane man
was left without dollar. In eighteen
months the prosperity, the insanity, the
insolvency and the complete domestic
ruin.
Besides that, there arc men who die
solvent. who are insolvent before they get
under the ground, or before their estate Is
settled up. How soon the auctioneer's
mallet can knock the life out Of an estate.
A man thinks tho property IL worth $16,.
600; under forced sale IL brings $1,000.
The business man takes advantage Of the
crisis and he compels the widow Of his
deceased partner to sell out to him at Q
ruinous price or loose all. Tho stock WAS
supposed to be very valuable, but it has
been 40 "watered" that when the executor
tries 10 sell Il he is laughed out of Wall
street, or the administrator II ordered by
the Sun agate to wind up the whole affair.
The estate was supposed, at the mans
death, to be worth 1000; but after the in
had been met, and the bill Of
the doctor, and the undertaken, and the
tombstons-cutter have been paid, there Is
nothing left.
That means tho children are to come
homo from school and 60 70 work. That
means tho complete hardship Of the wife,
turned out with nothing but needle to
fight the great battle Of the world. Tear
down the lambrequins, close the piano, rip
up the Administer, sell out the wardrobe
and let the mother take . child in each
hand and trudge out into tho desert Of the
world. A life insurance would have hin.
dered all that.
"But," says some one, 81 am Q man Of
small means, and can't afford to pay the
premium"
That is sometimes lawful and genuine
excuse, and there is no answer to it; but in
that he smokes up in cigars and drinks
down in wine, and expends in luxuries
enough money to have paid the premium
On . life insurance policy which would
have kept his family from beggary when
he is dead. A man ought 10 put himself
down on the strictest economy until he can
meet this Christian necessity. You have
no right to the luxuries of life until you
have made such provision.
l admire what was said by Rev. DR..
Guthrie, the great Scottish preacher. A
lew years before his death he stood in .
public meeting and declared:
"When l came to Edinburgh the people
sometimes laughed at my blue stockings
and at my cotton umbrella, and they said
looked like . common plowman, and
hey derided me because lived in a house
Tor which paid ELS rent year, and often
Times I walked when would have been
very glad to have q cab; but, gentlemen, I
lid all that because wanted to pay the
premium on q life insurance that would
Keep my family comfortable il I should
die."
That take to be the right expression of
IN honest, intelligent, Christian man.
The utter indifference Of many people on
this important subject accounts for much
of the crime and pauperism Of this day.
Who are the children sweeping the cross
ngs with broken broom, and begging of
you penny as you 60 by? Who are the
him shawls! All, they are the victims of
want; in many Of the cases the forecast Of
parents and grandparents might have
prevented it. God only knows how they
struggled to do right. They prayed until
The tears froze on their cheeks, they sewed
On the sack until the breaking of the day;
but they could not get enough money to
pay the rent; they could not get enough
money to decen:ly clothe t.. 2selves; and
one day in that wretched kSsne the angel
If purity and the angel Of esime fought
\ great fight between the empty bread
ray and the fireless hearth, and the
angel shrieked:
"Aha! have won the day."
Says some men: 81 believe what you
ray; it is right and Christian, and l mean
,ome time to attend to this matter"
My friend, you are going to lose the COM
tort Of you household in the same way the
sinner loses Heavenly prOcrastinatiou.
sec all around me the destitute and suf-
lerinS families Of parents who meant some
Day to attend to this Christian duty. Dur
ing the process Of adjournment the man
gets his feet wet, then comes . chill and de-
lirium, and the doleful shake of the
Doctors head, and the obsequies